JOHN FAHEY – THE TRANSFIGURATION OF BLIND JOE DEATH - 1973 TAKOMA RECORDS
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Purchased USED in a record store and stored in a PLASTIC BAG since purchasing. Album cover is starting to show slight "ring wear" on top front and back cover (see pictures). Top left front and bottom front left corner showing some wear (see pictures). Top of spline is split and worn through (see pictures). Other corners and edges are good. No lettering on spline. This is a Takoma Records 1973 release. It has the rectangular logo on the front bottom right (see picture) and is made in Santa Monica, California. There are no booklets or inserts.
Inner paper sleeve is plain with no rips, splits or tears. This sleeve has severe creasing (see pictures).
Album vinyl is in good shape with some slight "surface scuffs and scratching" visible in critical sunlight.. Labels are in excellent shape with no spindle marks showing at all. I MAY OF PLAYED THIS ONCE.
Side One: Beautiful Linda Getchell - Orinda-Moraga - I am the Resurrection - On the Sunny Side of the Ocean - Tell Her to Come Back Home - My Station Will be Changed After While - 101 is a Hard Road to Travel Side Two: How Green Was My Valley - Bicycle Built for Two - The Death of the Clayton Peacock - Brenda's Blues - Old Southern Medley - Come Back Baby - Poor Boy - Saint Patrick's Hymn
John Aloysius Fahey (February 28, 1939 – February 22, 2001) was an American fingerstyle guitarist and composer who played the steel-string acoustic guitar as a solo instrument. His style has been enormously influential and has been described as the foundation of the genre of American primitive guitar, a term borrowed from painting and referring mainly to the self-taught nature of the music and its minimalist style. Fahey borrowed from the folk and blues traditions in American roots music, having compiled many forgotten early recordings in these genres. He would later incorporate 20th century classical, Portuguese, Brazilian, and Indian influences into his work. Fahey was a pioneer of folk and experimental music, who founded Takoma Records and influenced many artists.
Fahey spent many of his later years in poverty and poor health, but enjoyed a minor career resurgence in the late 1990s, with a turn towards the avant-garde. He also created a series of abstract paintings in his final years. Fahey died in 2001 from complications from heart surgery. In 2003, he was ranked 35th on Rolling Stone magazine's "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" list. In 2023, Rolling Stone ranked Fahey as 40th greatest guitarist of all time
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